Facebook Makes Privacy Changes

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Facebook, the popular social networking website, agreed on Thursday to make changes to better protect the personal information of its users as a result of negotiations with Canada's privacy commissioner. The worldwide changes will give users more transparency and control over the information they provide to third-party developers of applications such as games and quizzes, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada announced.

As well, Facebook will also make it clear to users that they have the option of either deactivating or deleting their account.

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Its of cause a good thing, but its always sad that those big Companies like google, facebook, microsoft... has to be forced to protect the user/customers that build there Company.

I will give you all a hint the future of web 2.0 and other sites is TOTAL Privacy and control about Profile/info. that is what users want now and special in the future of the web. Users have enough of all this trade/collecting of info about the users.

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I can now be proud to say Canada has done something for the world! but these privacy changes still do not fully save the average teenager from the collection of their data, it just makes it a bit harder for companies. Also, facebook is making the worlds youth fatter...

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The changes will give users of the social networking website more transparency and control over the information they provide to third-party developers of applications such as games and quizzes

I couldn't find any specifics about this, but does this decision mean that I, as an end-user, will be able to tell developers they cannot, for example, see the: about_me, meeting_for, meeting_sex, political or political_blurb fields?